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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting.  I grew up in Pittsburgh where "chipped ham" is a thing (I didn't like regular sliced deli ham until I had been in this area for a few years and it grew on me).  There, most delis would shave a lot of ham to begin with and have a bowl in the refrigerater cooler of chipped ham.  They would take it and weigh it and then keep going.

In Pittsburgh, the slicers have an automated arm, the deli folk would put the ham on the slicer, turn it to the thinnest setting that would work (they all knew the setting) and then turn on the automatic slicer.  If the bowl was getting low, they would turn the machine on, then take a couple of orders and just keep watch on the slicer.  When the pile was big they would toss into the bowl.

It never occurred to me that delis elsewhere did not have the automatic slicing arm.  That would certainly save the poor deli techs arm if they got a request for shaved meats.[/quote]

YES! I opened this thread just to talk about chipped ham. So good. [/quote]

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